Epic trust exercise failure

[Trillian]

My girl was sat in her empty feeder cup looking at me quite pointedly, I was really pleased, it's her first attempt (as anthropomorphically interpreted by me) to communicate. So instead of taking that feeder cup out, I got another identical cup, put some dusted dubias in it and figured I could switch them out. I eased out the original cup with her on the rim, placed the fresh one inside the wire support, and let her walk across from the original one to the fresh one.

Then the fresh one tipped over and she, the cup, and the feeders fell to the floor of the enclosure. EPIC FAIL.

I picked her up, she did Huge Scary Panther at me, but I held her out and let her walk onto the basking branch, where she quickly made her way down to her Safe Place/Sleeping Branch and sat there being very boldly striped and huge and pushing her chin right out.

She calmed down fairly quickly and is now pootling about the enclosure like normal. I've properly secured the feeder cup, and got her some fresh feeders, although she's already been through and picked up a few of the escapees.

 

[Zubi]

Oh no, just give her a big ol` wax worm and she'll love u again

 

[laurie]

Take heart, her came thought it better than you did. rofl But she didn't jump off your hand and that is a start.

 

[Wykd]

Oi wacha doin to the lil gal?! Lol j/k i am sure she will not hold it against u.

 

[Swayne8998]

Haha yeah I have similar fails like that sometimes. I have cups that catch water drips (which he drinks out of) from the misters, and before I had a way for him to get to the ground (he comes on the ground when he feels social), he would hold on to the cups to get down. So usually, he would tip them over and make a water mess. So he came down all excited to see me and the cup tipped over and he got all upset and ran off. So yeah we all have those fails sometimes

 

[OfficialChameleon]

LOL, I was reading this like awww I wish my cham was like this... Feeling all good then, "The container and her fell to the floor", then I laughed because how pissed your chameleon got! ROFL

 

[Trillian]

Glad we amused you! Felt so guilty, only had her a few days and this is the first time she has let me get close!

 

[Ashleigh]

My girl was sat in her empty feeder cup looking at me quite pointedly, I was really pleased, it's her first attempt (as anthropomorphically interpreted by me) to communicate. So instead of taking that feeder cup out, I got another identical cup, put some dusted dubias in it and figured I could switch them out. I eased out the original cup with her on the rim, placed the fresh one inside the wire support, and let her walk across from the original one to the fresh one.

Then the fresh one tipped over and she, the cup, and the feeders fell to the floor of the enclosure. EPIC FAIL.

I picked her up, she did Huge Scary Panther at me, but I held her out and let her walk onto the basking branch, where she quickly made her way down to her Safe Place/Sleeping Branch and sat there being very boldly striped and huge and pushing her chin right out.

She calmed down fairly quickly and is now pootling about the enclosure like normal. I've properly secured the feeder cup, and got her some fresh feeders, although she's already been through and picked up a few of the escapees.

One time when I was feeding loki from my hand, he was on one of his branches that are secured with push pins, that one must have been loose b/c he shot his tounge out and got the bug but flipped upside down on the branch, but was still hanging on the branch with his back feet!! I about had a heart attack...
Oh, and if it makes you feel any better, when I first got him and he was FINALLY letting me hold him, something made him panick and he fell pretty far onto my carpet...He was pretty pissed lol thank goodness he wasn't hurt!